A wizard time to catch some cracking theatre...
EARLY 2022 STAGE PREVIEW Various Venues January-March 2022
Live theatre has struggled throughout the pandemic, but in true showbiz trouper fashion – the show must go on (restrictions allowing). Here’s our pick of what’s coming this way over the coming weeks.
The smash hit Spontaneous Potter is an entirely improvised wizarding comedy play, based on an audience suggestion of a fanfiction title.
Hilarity ensues as an entirely new Potter adventure is magically improvised on the spot – with live musical accompaniment! Previous shows include Harry Potter and the Chamber of Commerce, Harry Potter and the Neville Wears Prada and Harry Potter and the Rise of the Planet of the Snapes. This unofficial parody is at The Kings Theatre on January 15.
Meanwhile former Strictly Come
Dancing professional Kevin Clifton and the sensational worldwide Ballroom dance company Burn the Floor return to The Kings on January 22. A mix of eclectic music, jaw-dropping choreography and ground-breaking moves, this show has an abundance of infectious, rebellious energy and passion.
A blockbuster musical guaranteed to blow your mind, it is at The Kings from February 7-12. We Will Rock You features 24 of Queen’s biggest hits delivered in a show that boasts the scale and spectacle that marked the bands’ legendary live performances.
For some comedy-horror, new company Benchmark Theatre makes its debut with Young Frankenstein, telling the story of the grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, Frederick Frankenstein who inherits his family’s estate in Transylvania… they’re at New Theatre Royal on January 20-22.
Also at New Theatre Royal, from January 27-29, the award-winning drama wing of Fareham Musical Society presents Agatha Christie’s own stage adaptation of her masterpiece And Then There Were None. The original novel is the world’s biggestselling mystery, having sold more than 100m copies since its publication in 1939.
And playing their biggest home town show to date, Flo and Joan (aka sisters Nicola and Rosie Dempsey) bring their hilarious musical comedy to New Theatre Royal on February 5, with a show entitled Sweet Release. A week later, February 12, Reginald D Hunter is at the same venue with his show Bombe Shuffleur, and Ross Noble presents Humournoid there on February 18.
For something out of this world, hear Chichester-born astronaut Tim Peake talk about how he became the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station, conducted a spacewalk (and ran a marathon!) while orbiting Earth. He is at Portsmouth Guildhall on March 2.
Spontaneous Potter is an entirely improvised wizarding comedy